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Wrong English to French translation #681

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mathpce opened this issue Feb 22, 2023 · 3 comments
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Wrong English to French translation #681

mathpce opened this issue Feb 22, 2023 · 3 comments

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@mathpce
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mathpce commented Feb 22, 2023

Hello,

I got weird translations from English text to French:

English (source) French (translation) Problem
To whet your appetite Pour éblerler votre appétit "éblerler" does not exist in French, I have checked with major search engines and two leading dictionaries
to whet your appetite pour éveillez votre appétit The difference is only the uppercase. The translation's meaning seems right here, but it should use an infinitive form ("éveiller") instead of a conjugated verb
@Raziel-SSJ
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Raziel-SSJ commented Apr 19, 2023

Hi.

Effectively, English to French, as well as French to English translations are often unusable.
Sometimes not accurate. The meaning is not appropriate/adapted/related to the context, or the conjugation is incorrect.
Sometimes totally wrong. Translate into an unrelated word(s) (with a totally different meaning, even its(their) different meanings or its(their) synonyms), or words that doesn't even exist.
Sometimes words are added from nowhere.
Sometimes words are not translated at all.

Understanding of the context and/or usage of synonyms seems to be problematic.
"Google Translate", sadly, is far ahead concerning this. But I really hope you'll be able to catch up with them.
A good point would be to add the possibility of having/seeing multiple results with synonyms or related words as Google does.

An example here in my comment:
"Google Translate", sadly, is far ahead concerning this.
Gives, when double/reverse translated:
"Google Translate", is unfortunately far from being at the forefront.
In addition to giving the opposite meaning, the end of the sentence is missing.

@marco-c
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marco-c commented Apr 19, 2023

@Raziel-SSJ can you provide example wrong translated sentences in French and English, the more the better.

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marco-c commented Jun 8, 2023

Moved to mozilla/translations#129. Please let us know if you find other wrong translated sentences.

@marco-c marco-c closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Jun 8, 2023
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